CLERMONT, COUNCIL OF


Meaning of CLERMONT, COUNCIL OF in English

(1095) Assembly for church reform called by Pope Urban II .

When the Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus requested aid against the Muslim Turks, the council became the occasion for launching the First Crusade . Urban thus launched a movement that caught the popular imagination with the idea of retaking Jerusalem.

Britannica English dictionary.      Английский словарь Британика.